Poor Guy, Collins needs a cane to walk and is seated during the concert. I think older bands need to retire, Genesis doesn't have the magic they had when Gabriel was a round but they did have some good songs. I guess they need the money..
“It’s been a strange couple of years,” said Genesis frontman Phil Collins in the understatement of the night on Thursday as the British rock vets brought The Last Domino? Tour — their first trek in 14 years — to Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena for the first of two shows.
Collins, now 70, walking with a cane and forced to perform seated in a swivelling office chair (and not behind the drum kit where his 20-year-old son Nic has so ably taken over since Collins’ last solo tour in 2018) was likely speaking of his physically diminished presence after nerve damage, surgery and a fall did their very worst to him in the last decade.
However, the way he also enunciated certain lyrics of Invisible Touch later in the two-hour-and-25-minute show, he could also be talking about the acrimonious second split from his third wife (and Nic’s mom) who he had to get evicted from his $40-million Miami home with her new husband in the last year.
“And though she will f*** up your life, you’ll want her just the same,” he practically spat out during that song highlight.
Yes, even if Collins can’t move much, his acting background comes in handy, whether he was growling into the microphone during Mama — “Ha! Ha! HA!” — or gleefully convincing he crowd to “get in touch with the other side,” by raising and shaking their hands before Home By The Sea, a song about a haunted house.
If you recall, Collins, a real trooper given his current state, was always the physical and emotive guy opposite static if accomplished performers bassist-guitarist Mike Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks, both 71, and longtime touring guitarist-bassist Daryl Stuermer.
So now what?
Well, the people who designed the lights, graphics and backdrops of The Last Domino? tour clearly knew some distractions were in order so they went all out with a gobsmackingly good-looking production that includes a spaceship-like lighting rig and eyeball-grabbing graphics like an army of bowler-wearing businessmen or falling toilet paper during Land of Confusion or spiralling dominos during Domino.
“It’s been a strange couple of years,” said Genesis frontman Phil Collins in the understatement of the night on Thursday as the British rock vets brought The Last Domino? Tour — their first trek in 14 years — to Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena for the first of two shows.
Collins, now 70, walking with a cane and forced to perform seated in a swivelling office chair (and not behind the drum kit where his 20-year-old son Nic has so ably taken over since Collins’ last solo tour in 2018) was likely speaking of his physically diminished presence after nerve damage, surgery and a fall did their very worst to him in the last decade.
However, the way he also enunciated certain lyrics of Invisible Touch later in the two-hour-and-25-minute show, he could also be talking about the acrimonious second split from his third wife (and Nic’s mom) who he had to get evicted from his $40-million Miami home with her new husband in the last year.
“And though she will f*** up your life, you’ll want her just the same,” he practically spat out during that song highlight.
Yes, even if Collins can’t move much, his acting background comes in handy, whether he was growling into the microphone during Mama — “Ha! Ha! HA!” — or gleefully convincing he crowd to “get in touch with the other side,” by raising and shaking their hands before Home By The Sea, a song about a haunted house.
If you recall, Collins, a real trooper given his current state, was always the physical and emotive guy opposite static if accomplished performers bassist-guitarist Mike Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks, both 71, and longtime touring guitarist-bassist Daryl Stuermer.
So now what?
Well, the people who designed the lights, graphics and backdrops of The Last Domino? tour clearly knew some distractions were in order so they went all out with a gobsmackingly good-looking production that includes a spaceship-like lighting rig and eyeball-grabbing graphics like an army of bowler-wearing businessmen or falling toilet paper during Land of Confusion or spiralling dominos during Domino.
